Re: Beginning Ada Programming, by Andrew T. Shvets (2020)

[Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com>]

On Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:26:55 UTC, Optikos  wrote:

> > That's not what I'm saying at all!
> > 
> > I'm saying to get someone used to the language, there is no problem with starting them off with the
> > ready defined types, but explaining ranges a little later on, literally, within pages of themselves.
> 
> Oh, then I agree with AdaMagica wholeheartedly if restricted to only learning a new language.  I once worked for a long-time Fortran programmer who self-taught himself C; every line of code that he wrote was 110% pure Fortran-think without any resemblance (other than surface syntax) to anything more modern:  

...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand you missed my point entirely. I said to introduce them to typing concepts after getting them used to the very basics, i.e. first few simple programs adding numbers and printing them out, how the build using the compiler, then handle types and explaining how they're different to something like typedef in C.